Political economy of caste in India /

"Political Economy of Caste in India presents the caste mode of production as an important analytical tool to understand the socio-economic and political dynamics of India. The book looks at caste from the economic base and also links it with the superstructure that includes judiciary, untoucha...

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Main Author: Chalam, K. S. (Kurmana Simha), 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2020.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Caste mode of production : concept and content
  • Colonial approach to Hindutva and Marxist writing
  • Caste and economic power in India
  • Inequity in the development of human capital in India
  • Economic deprivation and social exclusion of marginalized castes
  • New economic policy : the Dvija Project
  • Caste and the advent of crony capitalism in India
  • Judiciary and deprivation of social justice
  • Social barriers as impediments of information flow
  • Physical alienation : offences and atrocities against scheduled castes
  • The fragmented assertion : divide and rule
  • Globalization and the future of Dalits and Adivasis
  • Democracy Dalit rights and the paradigm shift.